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IOWA CITY, Oct. 24 (UPI)—A former University of Iowa basketball player filed a $5‐million suit against four university doctors today, charging them with negligence that made him go blind.

James Speed, 23 years old, who came to the university in 1969 as a highly rated junior college transfer, filed the suit in Johnson County District Court here. He claimed malpractice by the four doctors who cared for him after he entered University Hospital Nov. 27, 1969, for removal of two teeth led to a sinus infection and then meningitis that left him “totally and permanently blind” when he was discharged Jan. 5, 1971.

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